Afghanistan Affairs

Content

This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , Number 54 of 1856, dated 22 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-11 and are dated 14 September to 9 October 1856.

The enclosures consist of correspondence concerning affairs in Afghanistan, including intelligence regarding Herat, the Ameer of Cabool [Amīr of Kabul, also spelled Cabul in this item], Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy], leaving Candahar [Kandahar] for Cabool, and extracts of news letters from Cabool and Jellalabad [Jalalabad].

The main correspondents are: the Officiating Secretary to the Chief Commissioner for the Punjab; and the Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawur [Peshawar] Division. Other correspondents include the Acting Commissioner in Sinde [Sindh], and Dost Mahomed Khan.

Extent and format

1 item (41 folios)

It is part of

‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM INDIA’, Vol 148

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/229

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 98-138

Former external reference(s)

No. 54 of 1856

History of this record

Date(s)

22 Oct 1856 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Military intelligenceSiege of Herat (1856)

Places

Afghanistan

People & organisations

CommissionerDūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy

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